Livery cab driver killed by speeding hit-and-run driver, friend says he was on his regular overnight shift

An outgoing livery cab and professional driver was fatally struck by a speeding hit-and-run driver early Sunday, police said — just as he neared the end of his overnight shift. Robert Godwin, 45, was driving west on E. 168th St. in Concourse in a Toyota Camry with TLC plates when the driver of a Chevy Traverse zipping north on Webster Ave. slammed into him at the intersection about 4:25 a.m., cops said.

Baffled neighbors ask ‘when are we going to stop doing this to each other?’ after drive-by shooting kills young dad

A Brooklyn man killed in a drive-by shooting early Tuesday was probably not the intended target, according to residents who said the young father largely kept to himself. About five shots rang out along Lexington Ave. near Marcy Ave. in Bedford-Stuyvesant about 1:40 a.m., cops and witnesses said; some mistook the gunfire for holiday fireworks.

Man shot and stabbed to death in Brooklyn was trying to rebound from checkered past, friend says ‘he was trying to move forward’

An ex-con who died after he was shot and stabbed in a Brooklyn housing complex was remembered Monday in his neighborhood as a troubled man with a volatile streak. Yet despite a checkered past and the violent way 31-year-old Waleek Watford died, residents of the Brownsville neighborhood where he was killed were still saddened by his death ― even those with whom he had run-ins.

$2 million gold tabernacle stolen from Park Slope church, angel statue decapitated in what priest describes as ‘very, very violent’ attack

A more than century-old, $2 million jeweled tabernacle was stolen from a Brooklyn church by at least one demonic thief who also decapitated an angel statue — and stole its head — in a rampage the church’s pastor described as “very, very violent,” police said Sunday. The Diocese of Brooklyn said Sunday the cruel crew “cut through a metal protective casing” to get to the 127-year-old tabernacle inside, mauling other statuary in the process.

Clergy member at NYPD precinct working with cops to effect surrender of suspected Q train killer, say sources

A member of the clergy is at a lower Manhattan police precinct working to arrange the surrender of the suspected Q train shooting suspect, police sources said Tuesday. Police retracted a report to media outlets that the suspect had surrendered with the clergy member. Instead, the sources now say, the clergy member arrived alone at the 5th Precinct in Chinatown.

NYC Goldman Sachs worker randomly shot to death on train was avoiding Uber surge pricing: ‘Weekends he never took the subway’

Any other Sunday, Daniel Enriquez probably would have taken an Uber to meet his brother for brunch, but the car service’s surge pricing was getting out of hand, so he jumped on the subway, his partner said. Enriquez, a research assistant at Goldman Sachs, was slowly easing back into regularly riding the subway in the pandemic, first with trips to work and the occasional social outing. It was during one of those trips, a weekly get-together with his younger brother for brunch, that Enriquez was shot and killed on the Q train for no apparent reason other than he was sharing the train car with the alleged killer.

Intruder high on drugs stabs man to death after leaping from balcony to balcony to break into victim’s Queens home

An intruder high on drugs jumping from balcony to balcony at a Queens apartment building stabbed a man to death after climbing through the victim’s third-floor window early Sunday, police sources said. Yang Zhang, 35, broke into the apartment on 57th Road near Lawrence St. in Flushing just after 2:10 a.m. as the 41-year-old victim and his wife slept inside, police said.

Roommate of disbarred Bronx lawyer charged in his shooting death

A once-promising attorney who fell from grace after disbarment spent his final moments on the wrong end of a gun — killed in a roommate squabble inside a Bronx apartment building for people on the verge of homelessness, authorities said. Jemal Deshong was gunned down by his roommate, James Charleston, 61, and another man, Louis McDonald, following a late-night argument in a Wakefield apartment that was the culmination of years of frustration, prosecutors and the landlord say.

Man stabbed to death inside Times Square Dave & Buster’s over arcade prize mourned by family: ‘Just don’t know why they would do this to him’

Allen Stanford, killed this past weekend redeeming tickets for a prize inside a Times Square Dave & Buster’s arcade, lived for the summer. The 39-year-old victim brought his three siblings together for family cookouts once the warm weather hit, always quick to put a smile on their faces and a drink in their hands. But the change in seasons will come with heartbreak this year after a deranged stranger fatally plunged a knife into Stanford’s chest.

Queens customer angry over duck sauce sought in fatal shooting of Forest Hills Chinese food deliveryman

A customer’s monthslong beef with a Queens Chinese restaurant over duck sauce is now being eyed by NYPD detectives as a possible motive for the fatal shooting of a well-liked deliveryman, the Daily News has learned. The NYPD wants to question the disgruntled customer — a 50-year-old man once charged with armed robbery — about the Saturday night shooting of Zhiwen Yan as he was riding a scooter near 108th St. and 67th Drive in Forest Hills, sources said Monday.

Man stabbed to death inside Times Square Dave & Buster’s in fight sparked by game prize

A 39-year-old man was stabbed to death during an argument over a game prize inside Times Square’s Dave & Buster’s, police said Sunday. Allen Stanford turned in his winning tickets at the arcade-themed restaurant about 10:45 p.m. Saturday and was reaching for a yellow drone on a top shelf in the prize room when he got into a fight with his killer, according to a restaurant worker who reviewed surveillance footage of the attack said.
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